Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
An increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earlie...
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| author | Timothy Erickson Juliana da Silva Melissa S. Nolan Lucila Marquez Flor M. Munoz Kristy O. Murray |
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| description | An increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earliest known cases were diagnosed in 2011. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0818761694e04ac8a116c2813aee37152022-12-21T19:20:21ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592017-12-0123122068207110.3201/eid2312.170631Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USATimothy EricksonJuliana da SilvaMelissa S. NolanLucila MarquezFlor M. MunozKristy O. MurrayAn increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earliest known cases were diagnosed in 2011.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/12/17-0631_articletyphus group rickettsiosisRickettsia typhimurine typhuspediatric infectious diseasesTexasrickettsial diseases |
| spellingShingle | Timothy Erickson Juliana da Silva Melissa S. Nolan Lucila Marquez Flor M. Munoz Kristy O. Murray Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA Emerging Infectious Diseases typhus group rickettsiosis Rickettsia typhi murine typhus pediatric infectious diseases Texas rickettsial diseases |
| title | Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA |
| title_full | Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA |
| title_fullStr | Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA |
| title_full_unstemmed | Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA |
| title_short | Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA |
| title_sort | newly recognized pediatric cases of typhus group rickettsiosis houston texas usa |
| topic | typhus group rickettsiosis Rickettsia typhi murine typhus pediatric infectious diseases Texas rickettsial diseases |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/12/17-0631_article |
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